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Definition of Sperse
1. v. t. To disperse.
Definition of Sperse
1. to disperse [v SPERSED, SPERST or SPERSED, SPERSING, SPERSES] - See also: disperse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sperse
Literary usage of Sperse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"To SPARSE, or sperse. To scatter; from the Latin. ... See sperse. Spent. rq,iis».
SPA RVER, *. The canopy or tester of a bed ; evidently so, ..."
2. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker, John Longmuir (1902)
"To sperse To disperse, va To a-sparse' To slander; to censure, va To dic-perse' To
... drive away; scatter, va To in-ttr-sperse' To mingle here and there, ..."
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